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Dear Faux Pelini,

I’m feeling anxious and confused. My favorite football school is getting good at basketball and not so good at football. Can you offer some advice?

David F.

Dear David,

I am so sorry to hear this, but you are not alone. What you are experiencing is painful but happens to many football schools once in a while. Scientists call it “Basketball Displacement Disorder” (BDD) but cannot fully explain why a football school’s basketball team occasionally outperforms its football team. Nebraska suffered from BDD in the early ’90s; Alabama was a victim in the early part of this century. Oklahoma is an occasional BDD victim, and Michigan may be suffering from BDD right now.